May 17th, 2007, 3:50 am
Are you asking for an extrapolation method to get implied vols at extreme strikes? Why? At these strikes I would think that the market dynamics of supply and demand play a far more important role than any number generated by clever models/extrapolation methods. Having said that, take a look at the paper by Roger Lee on implied vols for extreme strikes. He proved the existence of an upper bound for the vols which has a 1-to-1 correspondence with the number of finite moments of the underlying. Not really answering your question though but I doubt a good answer exists anyway. Good luck!